<B>bummaree, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a middleman at the Billingsgate fish market. <DD><B> 2. </B>a porter at the Smithfield meat market. </DL>
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<B>bummer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a bum; loafer. <DD><B> 2. </B>a bad experience. <DD><B> 3. </B>a failure; flop. <BR> <I>Ex. ... all the films released this summer have been box-office bummers (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>during the civil war in the United States, a camp follower or a plundering straggler. </DL>
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<B>bump, </B>verb, noun, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to push throw, or strike (against something large or solid). <BR> <I>Ex. She bumped against the table in the dark. The jostling crowd bumped against the railing in their eagerness to see the race.</I> (SYN) thump, knock. <DD><B> 2. </B>to move by bumping against things. <BR> <I>Ex. Our car bumped along the dirt road.</I> (SYN) jolt, jog. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Cricket.) (of a delivery) to rear up off the ground. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to hit or come against with heavy blows. <BR> <I>Ex. That truck bumped our car.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S. Informal, Figurative.) to oust and take the place of (someone), especially on a plane or in a job, as by exercising a higher priority or greater seniority. <BR> <I>Ex. Every time there's a layoff at one of the shifts at our mill, the men bump each other according to seniority (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to seize (a person) and thump him against a wall or tree. <DD><B> 4. </B>(British.) (in boat racing) to overtake and touch (the boat ahead). <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a heavy blow or knock. <BR> <I>Ex. The bump knocked our car forward a few feet.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a swelling caused by a bump. <BR> <I>Ex. He has a bump where a baseball hit him on the head.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>any swelling or lump. <BR> <I>Ex. He tried to avoid the bump in the road.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a jolt or upward thrust of an airplane due to a rising current of air. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Informal.) a displacement or promotion. <BR> <I>Ex. a bump to full colonel.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Phrenology.) <DD><B> a. </B>a protuberance. <DD><B> b. </B>the faculty represented by the protuberance. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Slang.) a suggestive thrusting forward of the hips or abdomen, as in a striptease act. <BR> <I>Ex. a burlesque dancer's bumps and grinds.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>(British.) an overtaking in a boat race with a staggered start marked by contact with the boat in front. <DD><I>adv. </I> with a bump. <BR> <I>Ex. He went bump down the stairs.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>bump into,</B> </I>(Informal.) to meet by chance; run across. <BR> <I>Ex. He hoped to bump into some of his old classmates at the party.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>bump off,</B> </I>(Slang.) to kill. <BR> <I>Ex. Dutch was bumped off in Newark by a rival mob (Time).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>bump up,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>(Especially British Informal.) to increase suddenly. </I> <I>Ex. to bump up sales.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(U.S. Informal.) to promote. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a former marshal who was bumped up several places to the No. 4 position (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>bumper, </B>noun, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>any device that protects against damage by bumping. <DD><B> 2. </B>a bar or bars of metal across the front and back of a car, bus, or truck, that protects it from being damaged if bumped. <BR> <I>Ex. Trucks had been observed moving bumper to bumper, with lights on, in an unprecedentedly large movement ... southwards (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a cup or glass filled to the brim. <BR> <I>Ex. ... fill me a bumper, a bumper of claret (Thomas Love Peacock).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal.) something unusually large of its kind. <BR> <I>Ex. His crop of potatoes was a bumper.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Cricket.) a fast ball that rears off the ground, usually short pitched and to the danger of the batsman. <DD><B> 6. </B>a marine fish with a compressed body, common in the West Indies. <DD><I>adj. </I> unusually large; abundant. <BR> <I>Ex. The farmer raised a bumper crop of wheat last year.</I> (SYN) outsize. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to fill to the brim. </DL>
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<B>bumper sticker,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a sticker bearing a printed slogan for display on an automobile bumper. </DL>
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<B>bumph, </B>noun. <B>=bumf.</B></DL>
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<B>bumpkin</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an awkward or simple person from the country. <BR> <I>Ex. The more bashful country bumpkins hung sheepishly back (Washington Irving).</I> (SYN) lout, churl, boor, clodhopper. </DL>
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<B>bumpkin</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a short beam projecting from a ship, used to extend a sail, secure blocks, or the like. Also, <B>bumkin.</B> </DL>
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<B>bumpout, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) an addition that increases the space of a room in an office, apartment, or house without adding significantly to the outside dimension of a structure. <BR> <I>Ex. Ambitious bumpouts can be virtually room-size, large enough to be called an addition (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>bumptious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> unpleasantly forward or conceited; arrogant and quarrelsome. <BR> <I>Ex. Babbitt was a selfish, bumptious, small-souled provincial (Newsweek).</I> adv. <B>bumptiously.</B> noun <B>bumptiousness.</B> </DL>
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<B>bumpy, </B>adjective, <B>bumpier,</B> <B>bumpiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having bumps; full of bumps. <BR> <I>Ex. a bumpy road.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>causing bumps; rough. <BR> <I>Ex. a bumpy ride.</I> adv. <B>bumpily.</B> noun <B>bumpiness.</B> </DL>
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<B>bum's rush,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially U.S. Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a forcible ejection (of a person from a place). <BR> <I>Ex. He gave Fredo a firm bum's rush out the door, closing it and bolting it on Fredo's clamorous protests (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) any means used to get rid of someone. </DL>
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<B>bun</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>bread or cake in small shapes. Buns are often slightly sweetened and may contain spice or raisins. <DD><B> 2. </B>hair coiled at the back of the head in a knot suggesting a bun. Also, <B>bunn.</B> </DL>
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<B>bun</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a drunken condition; enough liquor to get drunk on. <BR> <I>Ex. He kept drinking till he got a bun on.</I> </DL>
<B>Buna, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Trademark.) a synthetic rubber made from butadiene, used especially in making automobile tires. Buna S is made by copolymerization of butadiene with styrene. Buna N is produced by the copolymerization of butadiene with acrylonitrile. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>buna.</B> this or any similarly produced rubber. </DL>
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<B>Bunbury, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-buried,</B> <B>-burying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to travel for the pleasure of traveling or sightseeing. </DL>
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<B>bunch, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a group of things of the same kind growing fastened, placed, or thought of together. <BR> <I>Ex. a bunch of grapes, a bunch of flowers, a bunch of sheep.</I> (SYN) batch, cluster. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) a group of people. <BR> <I>Ex. a bunch of thieves. They are a friendly bunch.</I> (SYN) band, gang. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) any group not necessarily together; lot. <BR> <I>Ex. He's got a bunch of cousins.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a swelling; protuberance. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to come together in one place. <BR> <I>Ex. The sheep bunched up in the shed to keep warm.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to bring together and make into a bunch. <BR> <I>Ex. We have bunched the flowers for you to carry home.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to put in folds; gather. <BR> <I>Ex. a dress bunched up on the hips and at the back.</I> noun <B>buncher.</B> </DL>
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<B>bunchberry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a low shrub with white flowers and dense clusters of bright-red berries; cornel. </DL>
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<B>buncher resonator,</B> <B>=klystron.</B></DL>
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<B>bunchflower, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a North American herb of the lily family, having grasslike leaves and a tall stem with a panicle of small, greenish flowers. </DL>
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<B>bunch grass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various grasses of the western United States that grow in distinct bunches or tufts. </DL>
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<B>bunch pink,</B> <B>=sweet william.</B></DL>
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<B>bunchy, </B>adjective, <B>bunchier,</B> <B>bunchiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having bunches or clusters. <DD><B> 2. </B>growing in bunches. <DD><B> 3. </B>bulging or protuberant. adv. <B>bunchily.</B> noun <B>bunchiness.</B> </DL>
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<B>bunco, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cos,</B> verb, <B>-coed,</B> <B>-coing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>(Slang.) a swindle, especially one perpetrated by means of cardsharping or some form of confidence trick. <DD><B> 2. </B>a kind of card game. <DD><I>v.t. </I> (Slang.) to swindle or cheat. Also, <B>bunko.</B> </DL>
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<B>buncombe, </B>noun. <B>=bunkum.</B></DL>
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<B>bunco steerer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) a decoy or shill for a bunco. </DL>
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<B>bund, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(in the Far East, especially Anglo-Chinese ports) an embankment forming a promenade or thoroughfare along a shore. <DD><B> 2. </B>(in India) an artificial embankment. </DL>
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<B>Bund, </B>noun, pl. <B>Bunde.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a former organization in the United States of persons with Nazi sympathies, founded in 1936. <DD><B> 2. </B>an association; society; league. </DL>
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<B>bunder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Anglo-Indian.) a landing place; pier; harbor. </DL>
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<B>Bundesrat, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the upper house of the federal legislature of Germany or of Austria. <DD><B> 2. </B>the federal council in the legislature of the former German Empire. <DD><B> 3. </B>the federal council or chief executive authority of Switzerland. </DL>
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<B>Bundestag, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the lower house of the federal legislature of Germany. </DL>
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<B>Bundeswehr, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the federal defense forces of Germany. </DL>
